Track Overview
Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular
Although the Java language is holding strong as a developer favourite, new languages and paradigms are being embraced on JVM, including Kotlin, native microservice frameworks, and modularisation (Jigsaw).
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Modular Java Development in Action
Since Java 9, a brand new module system is part of the Java platform. This isn’t your average language feature: making the most out of it may involve rewiring your brain. In this session we explore the benefits of a modular codebase using Java 9 modules. After reviewing the basic concepts of...
Sander Mak
Fellow & Software Architect @luministech
Neural Networks Across Space and Time
This is an intro-level talk on deep learning. We’ll start with a brief introduction to deep neural networks, why they are important and how they work. The talk will then cover two of the most important deep neural architectures: convolutional networks which excel at handling images and...
Dave Snowdon
Staff Engineer @VMware
Java at Scale
Java is on billions of devices but what does that really mean? How far can you take Java? Whats the smallest device you can run it on and what’s the largest? What about cloud or clusters or containers or even new types of hardware? In this talk learn more about how Java and the JVM cope with...
Steve Poole
Developer Advocate @IBM
Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad?
Many JVM languages promote "less boilerplate code" as one of their selling points. Even updates to Java in recent years have removed unnecessary syntax. While this is clearly meant to be a Good Thing, many of us - particularly if we've been writing Java for a long time - think "so what?". Our...
Trisha Gee
Java Champion, Engineer and Evangelist
Serverless and Java in the Real World
The siren song of Serverless lures developers in with promises of “only write business logic” and “deliver value quickly”, but it’s often unclear how to actually work on large-scale, real world Serverless applications, especially in an old-school language like Java. Concerns like...
Johnathan Chapin
Cloud Technology Consultant with an expertise in Serverless Computing
Speakers from this track
Sander Mak
Fellow & Software Architect @luministech
Sander is a Fellow at Luminis in The Netherlands, where he crafts modular and scalable software, most often on the JVM, but with a touch of TypeScript when needed. He also is a Java Champion and author of the O'Reilly book 'Java 9 Modularity'. As an avid conference speaker, Sander loves sharing...
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Dave Snowdon
Staff Engineer @VMware
By day, Dave Snowdon is a mild-mannered programmer working on cloud management of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at VMware. By night, when not asleep, he plans world domination by social emotional robots powered by python and clojure. Before he was virtualised Dave worked for Xerox Research...
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Steve Poole
Developer Advocate @IBM
Developer Advocate, DevOps practitioner (what ever that means) Long time IBM Java developer, leader and evangelist. I’ve been working on IBM Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than 1. Also had time to work on other things including representing IBM on various JSRs, being a committer on...
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Trisha Gee
Java Champion, Engineer and Evangelist
Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, software and non-profit, for companies of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, and dabbles with Open Source...
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Johnathan Chapin
Cloud Technology Consultant with an expertise in Serverless Computing
John Chapin is a co-founder of Symphonia, an expert Serverless and Cloud Technology Consultancy based in NYC. He has over 15 years of experience as a technical executive and senior engineer. John was previously VP Engineering, Core Services & Data Science at Intent Media, where he helped...
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Track Host
Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
Martijn is the Principal Software Engineering Group Manager for the Java Engineering Group at Microsoft. Prior to being acquired by Microsoft, he was the CEO of jClarity, a Performance Diagnostic tooling company that used ML and statistical techniques to automate root cause analysis of...
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